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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Andrei Grechko

1903 - 1976

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Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian: Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко, Ukrainian: Андрій Антонович Гречко; 17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet Minister of Defence from 1967 to 1976. Born to a Ukrainian peasant family near Rostov-on-Don, Grechko served in the Red Army cavalry during the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Grechko has received more than 250,866 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Andrei Grechko is the 321st most popular military personnel (up from 338th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Russia (up from 290th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Andrei Grechko was a Soviet military commander who led the Soviet forces during the Battle of Berlin.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrei Grechko ranks 321 out of 1,468Before him are Wu Sangui, Jiang Wei, Fyodor Tolbukhin, François Joseph Lefebvre, Sergey Sokolov, and Nikolai Yudenich. After him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Jacques MacDonald, Nearchus, Kirill Meretskov, Bahram Chobin, and Charles François Dumouriez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Andrei Grechko ranks 45Before him are Tunku Abdul Rahman, George Beadle, Georg Elser, Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, and Empress Kōjun. After him are Jiro Horikoshi, Claudio Arrau, Tamam Shud case, John Eccles, Bruno Bettelheim, and John Vincent Atanasoff. Among people deceased in 1976, Andrei Grechko ranks 37Before him are Leopold Ružička, Lars Onsager, Émile Benveniste, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Dalton Trumbo. After him are René Cassin, Mitsuo Fuchida, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Silvana Armenulić, and Paul Lazarsfeld.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 279 out of 3,262Before him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783). After him are Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Ilya Frank (1908), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 26Before him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862). After him are Kirill Meretskov (1897), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Leonid Govorov (1897), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), and Dmitry Pavlov (1897).